“So many people could have been harmed not only financially, physically, emotionally, spiritually,” James said of the tweet’s effect. “Yes, we do have freedom of speech, but there can be a lot of negative that comes with that, too.”Also note the idea of him bowing at the altar of the almighty Chinese yuan by saying freedom of speech can “be a lot of negative.
Let me clear up the confusion. I do not believe there was any consideration for the consequences and ramifications of the tweet. I’m not discussing the substance. Others can talk About that.My team and this league just went through a difficult week. I think people need to understand what a tweet or statement can do to others. And I believe nobody stopped and considered what would happen. Could have waited a week to send it.
Oh yes, of course, if Morey waits a week, then James and the NBA are allowed to fully market themselves to those millions of Chinese fans without rebuke or reprisal. If Morey waits a week, the Lakers and Nets can fly in, sell themselves down to their last shoelaces, then fly back home where they would find it easy to support Morey’s tweet with pockets bulging.
So freedom of speech is OK as long as it doesn’t inconvenience anyone? Yet back in 2012, on the afternoon of a game, James orchestrated one of his most powerful demonstrations when he and his Miami Heat teammates posed for a picture wearing hooded sweatshirts with heads bowed and faces hidden to
SenRickScott BillPlaschke SenRickScott you would come off a little more believable as having ethics if you had not defrauded medicare of billion$ aaaaand...if YOUR AG of Florida, Pam Bondi, wasn't a registered as a foreign agent of Turkish bank Halkbank--indicted by SDNY today for money laundering/fraud
BillPlaschke What if... It's NOT magcially 'okay' for LeBron and the NBA to sell out to China even if you use the magical bullshit b-word, business?
BillPlaschke Excellent summary of the CCP threat can be found in this interview from Jkylebass All you need to know about the horrifyingly evil Chinese Communist Party regime: “... he had booked an appointment for his heart transplant”
SenRickScott BillPlaschke LeBron deserves going to reeducation camp.
BillPlaschke Didn’t you Write a article regarding the Olympics in 08 and how the reception and humanity was ? And how they cheered for Kobe ? Not once did you mention anything about “human rights” but now you want lebron to be Gandhi ? This article and others are trash
BillPlaschke Forget China. I’m sure Afghanistan is interested in the NBA coming to town 😏
BillPlaschke I don't understand how black Americans can feel safe in America. They get shot just for doing nothing.
BillPlaschke when Plaschke has an accurate take
BillPlaschke LeBum must have stood to lose millions. He’s the new Jay Z. Sell out
BillPlaschke it just goes to show that he's a selfish prick all along. because he's the real victim in all of this.
BillPlaschke Doesn’t sound like it.
BillPlaschke blah, blah, blah...man dribbling ball, says words